Statistical study and investigation of the cut resistant and thermo-physiological performance of protective gloves: A New Prospective

This research presents the work carried out to investigate the performance properties of protective gloves besides improvement in thermo-physiological comfort properties. The knitted gloves prepared from filament Stainless steel, filament Kevlar, staple spun Kevlar, and filament Glass were used in the core. While 100% Viscose rayon and 50/50% Polyester /Viscose rayon were used in the sheath. Gloves were tested for cut resistance, tear resistance, puncture resistance, and abrasion resistance which were of the prime focus and thermo-physiological comfort properties were also tested. In this research a multi-response optimization technique i.e. Principal component analysis was applied to identify the best yarn combination for gloves based on the above-mentioned properties. Thermal images were also taken in constant ambient conditions for temperature distribution maps across the hand's surface. All the results were evaluated statistically with analysis of variance and conclusion was made that the effect of core yarn on thermo-physiological properties are less significant. The result revealed that samples having dual core yarn exhibited better in terms of overall properties. The sample having dual-core filament Kevlar and staple spun Kevlar are ranked the best. In addition, developed samples exhibited better comfort properties than the control sample.